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Start Your New Year Off Write: Douglass Street Writing Lab...

Start Your New Year Off Write: Douglass Street Writing Lab Greatest Hits

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 7:00 PM - Tuesday, March 09, 2010 at 9:30 PM (PT)

San Francisco, CA

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Start Your New Year Off Write
Douglass Street Writing Laboratory's Greatest Hits

Taught by Matthew Clark Davison, writer & teacher in San Francisco State University's Creative Writing BA/MA/MFA programs.

This January, we'll be re-staging the 8 experiments that have yielded the most interesting, provocative writing in the history of The Lab

3 years, 6 sessions, 60+ students, 48 distinct experiments 


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Fiction, Memoir, and Beyond
The Douglass Street Lab
Is a Creative Writing Laboratory


When: 8 consecutive Tuesdays, starting January 19th, 2010. 
What time: 7-9:30pm.
Where: A spacious private home near both the Castro and Noe Valley with easy parking and access to MUNI. 
Cost: $395.00

Intimate writing laboratory (a place to research, experiment, measure, review, and revise) for all levels. 
  • Experienced writers should expect to build upon their craft skills and deepen their characterizations. 
  • "Beginners" should expect to learn a useful, creative writing vocabulary and to experience how precision, concreteness, expansiveness, and generosity work together to form compelling and scintillating prose.
  • All should expect to take their work, but not themselves, seriously (plan to have fun WHILE digging deep in an environment that will be at once focused and relaxed).
 
Non-writer-identified folks, avid readers, and creative artists (actors, dancers, musicians, etc.) are welcomed, encouraged to attend. 
 
Class Size: 8-13 people. 
 
Notes:
  • You will NOT be responsible to write written feedback for your peers. Reading/feedback will take place in "The Lab" and there will be the option of posting and responding online in between sessions.  
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  • The Douglass Lab is also home to a cat, should that be relevant to you. 
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When

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 7:00 PM
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010 at 9:30 PM (PT)

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Douglass Street Lab
Douglass and 21st Street
San Francisco, CA 94114




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Matthew Clark Davison

I’m a fiction writer, lecturer in creative writing, and writing coach living in San Francisco. I hold a BA in English Literature and an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University where I’ve been teaching since 1998. 

Courses I’ve taught at State include: Characterization, Short Story Writing, Uses of Personal Experience, Directed Writing (a one-on-one tutorial), Writers on Writing, Craft of Fiction, Style in Fiction, The Short-Short Story, Work In Progress, Teaching Creative Writing, Transfer Literary Magazine, and Fourteen Hills. I'm an Artist Mentor forPerforming Arts Workshop, the non-profit that once hired me as the Writer in Residence at LYRIC. 

I’ve read at several diverse venues across the country, including: The San Francisco Public Library, The Poetry Center, LitQuake's LitCrawl at Adobe Books, Million Fishes Gallery, The Shanti Project, Glide Church, and The Guild Complex in Chicago. Along with Maxine Hong Kingston and others, I was interviewed for a radio program titled Voices at the End of the Rainbow. 

My short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary journals, both bound and online, including: The Atlantic Monthy’s Unbound, Lodestar Quarterly, and 580-Split. 

My now-completed novel, ROADMAP, won the Clark/Gross Novel-in-Progress Contest and was granted a Stonewall Alumni Association Award for excellence. ROADMAP is represented by Johnson and Axelrod Literary Agency. 

The recent recipient of a Cultural Equities Grant from the city of San Francisco, I'm writing a second novel now, called LETTERS TO THE DEAD. 

To hear me read my own work, visit Dublit. 

To find out more about me, my upcoming classes or readings, visit my blog. 

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